The Palmerston, East Dulwich  fancyapint.com rated pub, rated2 pints - click for an explanation of our ratings

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location:

East Dulwich

address:

91 Lordship Lane, SE22 8EP

phone:

0871 258 8692*
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nearest stations:

East Dulwich railway station
(640m)

North Dulwich railway station
(1Km)

Peckham Rye railway station
(1.3Km)

Denmark Hill railway station
(1.4Km)

how to find it:

From East Dulwich BR station, head right down Grove Vale until the road becomes Lordship Lane. Keep walking for another 5-10 minutes and you'll see the pub on your left.

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picture of Palmerston
This used to be the best pub on this stretch, perfectly balancing off the New Hamlet Inn and the Foresters with the more upmarket EDT and Franklin's. Though what with its wood panelling we had it earmarked (sadly) for a gastropub refit. Well, that's now come to pass: the peerage has been dropped from the pub's name (why?) and it's bought a first class ticket to Gastro land with all the necessary accoutrements (add to the stripped wooden interior and bare floors another tell tale sign: the chef's name at the bottom of the menu). The back room and most of the main bar are taken up with tables set for diners, so there's not much space for the passing drinker. On our visit, one or two of the older regulars were doing their best to hang on to the pub's status as a place for a drink, though with only one main course on the menu under a tenner they were unlikely to stay on for anything to eat. The case could be made that this one's now more suited to the growing number of locals with a disposable income, but the old pub was hardly dying a death and it had a fair range of regulars calling it home. A full-on gastropub was bound to hit Lordship Lane eventually: just a shame it was the old Lord Palmerston that had to make way for it.

reviewed:
15/6/2004
reviewed by jack

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posted by incertus - Monday 19th May, 2008, 12:17am
Bewildering night at The Palmerston tonight (Sunday). Rang last orders at the unusually early time of 9.55pm and stopped serving by 10.15pm. Many punters were left perplexed at this ridiculously early closing time. I counted atleast 5 people who came to the bar only to be turned away. Another ridculous thing about this pub is that you'll have the situation where twenty people want to sit down and have their drink but all the (empty) tables are reserved for non-existent diners! Are you a pub or a restaurant?
posted by Regular - Tuesday 26th June, 2007, 2:49pm
This review's a bit harsh - yes, this was a decent enough boozer ten years ago but it had been going steadily to the dogs, frankly. They still do an excellent pint - though it's perhaps not the place to go and try to settle in for a long session at the weekend since you're quite right that most of the tables will be taken up with diners sampling what is now some excellent food. On the other hand, if you're doing some Saturday shopping on Lordship Lane and you fancy stopping off for a quick pint, I'd say it's the place to go on Lordship Lane, with a better range of ales (and better kept) than Franklins or the EDT (both of which I also use regularly). You might have to prop up the bar (and when has that stopped the serious pub-goer) but you might not.
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